“In a nutshell, theoretical models cannot explain what we observe in the geological record,” says oceanographer Gerald Dickens, study co-author and professor of Earth Science at Rice University in Houston. “There appears to be something fundamentally wrong with the way temperature and carbon are linked in climate models.”

Again: I’m old enough to remember overpopulation, global cooling, DDT killing birds and the hole in the ozone. All bogus. Chicken Little has really been quite consistent.

It’s hard to confirm a model when you can’t even be sure of the data.